Senior Data Engineer

About Housing Anywhere

We change the way people find accommodation around the world. Housing Anywhere is a housing platform where people can rent out rooms to international students. It originally started as a platform where outgoing exchange students can rent out their rooms when they go abroad. Incoming exchange students can rent these rooms. Nowadays, it's a global platform where demand & supply of rooms for international students meet each other.

Position

Over the past couple of years, HousingAnywhere grew exponentially and we are currently with 150 colleagues and also aim to double our business in upcoming years. As a Senior Data Engineer you would be joining our Data Engineering team. We currently aim to improve our existing data pipeline to scale to new heights where your expertise would be immensely helpful.

Our Stack

At HousingAnywhere, our data warehouse is powered by Snowflake. Our ETL pipelines are built using Stitch, dbt and Cloud composer. We are using Google Cloud Platform where we have deployed several Machine Learning models in production via Docker containers running on a Kubernetes cluster which are fully integrated with HousingAnywhere’s marketplace. We also aim to leverage real time data in upcoming months.

Your Responsibilities

• Scale and evolve our data infrastructure, optimising for cost, performance, scalability and reliability
• Design and implement streaming and batch data pipelines for data ingestion and delivery
• Work with cross functional teams to add new data sources in our data lake/data warehouse
• Introduce data quality & data monitoring processes 
• Provide guidance and expertise to other engineers on best practices to build and productions data pipelines and reduce tech debt

Your qualification

• At least 5 years of experience as a Data Engineer
• Driven Engineer with experience working with big data technologies
• You have experience designing, creating and scaling ETL/ELT pipelines
• Love building data driven products and have experience in 1 or more programming languages (ideally python)
• Strong SQL, Data Modelling and Data Warehousing Skills
• Experience working in Cloud based Data Warehouse like Snowflake/Redshift/Big query is highly desirable
• Experience in dbt(Data Build Tool) an Airflow/Cloud Composer/Astronomer is highly desirable
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes is a plus
• Experience with designing Real time data pipelines is a plus
• Work experiences in startups and/or scale ups

What we offer

• You have the opportunity to take full ownership of your work and dare to do things differently. Here, all ideas matter
• Work with a creative, diverse and inclusive team! Think 140+ people from 30+ different nationalities 
• Budget for Dutch or English classes to help you kick off your stay in the Netherlands, and help you immerse into the Dutch culture
• 10 % of the time on personal development and side projects
• Work in a spacious, modern and brand new office in heart of Rotterdam, with free coffee and snacks, and a social space with entertainment facilities 
• Personal equipment including new MacBook, screens and adjustable tables and chairs
• Work from anywhere is our policy, including flexible working hours
• Unlimited holiday policy, with a minimum amount mandatory each year
• Are you coming from abroad? We provide a relocation package

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of Housing Anywhere.